One more point on the way Obama initially explained Wright. I thought back to the way Obama described Wright on The View:

SENATOR OBAMA: These particular ones that you mentioned I haven’t heard but like I said, this is over the course of 20 years. What you’ve been seeing is a snippet of a man. Imagine if somebody compiles the five stupidest things you had ever said and put them in a 30-second loop that was played every day for two weeks.

Wrong. Totally wrong. Completely wrong. The “snippets” in the 30-second-loop were not slips of the tongue, or momentary lapses of judgment, or passions run wild. They accurately represented the actual beliefs of Jeremiah Wright and how he felt about this country; his hour-long appearance at the National Press Club confirmed that.

We now know that Obama, in assessing the biggest controversy to engulf his political career, completely misjudged whether these comments were representative of Wright’s beliefs.

Today, you can plausibly argue that the particular ones Elizabeth Hasselbeck mentioned are no longer even in the top five stupidest things Wright has ever said; at that point, the list didn’t even include comparing U.S. Marines to Roman Legionaries who mocked and abused Jesus, or arguing that the U.S. and al-Qaeda were committing the same acts under different flags…

And Obama had the audacity to suggest that Hasselbeck was being unfair in judging Wright based on those snippets.